Speaking to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to equate unlimited amounts of secret corporate money given to Republicans candidates to “free speech” and then falsely claimed that President Obama was trying to “limit free speech” with “thuggish” tactics such as requiring donors’ names to be made public, which was the law for years per the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law.

Oddly, Sen. McConnell did not call Senator John McCain, who is white, a “thug” or accuse Sen. McCain of “limiting free speech.”